silly me. i'd nearly gone to buy myself a new PSU (power supply unit) for my desktop pc. fortunately, i did some testing with the psu i'd borrowed from work (nice to be in the IS dept) and after a bit of coming and going, my manual diagnostics lead me to identify the cause of my power failure on the existing psu. the 20-pin plug connecting the psu to the motherboard was loose! gosh... it seems to be working fine now that i've reconnected it fully in its seat. just that the operating system is still unwilling to power off the computer after shutting down. this tiny exercise saved me $50-70+ on a new psu! would have been a waste to get one as this one's still working! PSUs rarely go down as they are such (compared to the cpu chip) basic/simple design.
*achoo* i think i'm coming down with something. flu or something. should have seen it coming and shouldn't have continued rubbing my eye. this always come after i rub my eye too much.
oh and some old classmate asked me to help advertise this ;) some second hand shop online that sells... well... stuff.
*sniff*
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